Course Catalog - 2006-2007

     

ELEC 527 - NANO COMPUTING

Long Title: COMPUTING DESIGN WITH NANOTECHNOLOGIES
Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Description: CMOS transistors, building elements of modern computing are entering the nanometer era. This course aims at providing basic knowledge of nanotechnologies-based computing. It starts with addressing immediate challenges facing CMOS-based computing. It then covers emerging non-standard CMOS and non CMOS devices, their physical properties, fabrications, circuit design, and impacts on the existing design flow and computing paradigms.
Course URL: http://webdb.ece.rice.edu/elec527